Ten years since the last Chikungunya virus outbreak in Italy: history repeats itself

Blood Transfus. 2017 Oct;15(6):489-490. doi: 10.2450/2017.0215-17.

Authors

Giuseppe Marano¹, Simonetta Pupella¹, Ilaria Pati^{1

2}, Francesca Masiello¹, Massimo Franchini^{1

3}, Stefania Vaglio^{1

4}, Claudio Velati^{1

5}, Giancarlo M Liumbruno¹

Affiliations

¹ Italian National Blood Centre, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy.
² Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, "A. Moro" University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
³ Department of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, "Carlo Poma" Hospital, Mantua, Italy.
⁴ Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Italian Society of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohaematology, Rome, Italy.

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Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Blood Donors
Blood Safety*
Blood Specimen Collection
Blood Transfusion
Chikungunya Fever / blood
Chikungunya Fever / epidemiology*
Chikungunya virus / isolation & purification*
Disease Outbreaks
Humans
Italy / epidemiology